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Perception Quotes
"How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception."
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"People say not to judge a book by its cover, but what if you somehow read the inside of the book without seeing the cover first? And what if you really liked what was inside the book? Of course when you go to close the book and are about to see the cover for the first time, you hope it's something you'll find attractive. Because who wants an incredibly written book sitting on their bookshelf if they have to stare at a shitty cover?"
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"Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!"
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"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly."
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"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"
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"You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun."
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"Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act."
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"You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do."
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"I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman."
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"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
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"Everything is interconnected. My readings of classical authors, who never speaks of sunsets, have made many sunsets intelligible to me, in all their colors. There is a relationship between syntactical competence, by which we distinguish the values of beings, sounds and shapes, and the capacity to perceive when the blue of the sky is actually green, and how much yellow is in the blue green of the sky. It comes down to the same thing - the capacity to distinguish and to discriminate. There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends of the grammarians."
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"We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the edited, the thing set in the clearly artistic or the clearly scientific angle of perspective. One of the deepest lessons we have to learn is that nature, of its nature, resists this. It waits to be seen otherwise, in its individual presentness and from our individual presentness."
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"Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips."
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"The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer."
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"Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves."
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"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it."
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"You are very kind," he said. "Very wrong, but very kind."
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"But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility."
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"A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes."
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"Unfortunately, it doesn't ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is."
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"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."
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"While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him."
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"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."
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"I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day."
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"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
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"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
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"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."
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"Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story."
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"What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because we've read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now."
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"Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation."
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"Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes."
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"Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception."
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"In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later."
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"Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception."
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"Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?"
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"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."
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"Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego - preserving strategies."
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"If it had been a color, it might have been green. If it had touched her ears, it might have sounded rhythmic, like the creak of a rocking chair or drone of a bee. If it had a scent, it might have been sweet and drowsy, like fresh pine on the fire."
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"The menu is not the meal."
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"Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?"
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"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."
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"It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures."
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"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
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"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
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"You've crafted this bored veneer, but you're always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter."
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"The obvious matters are more imperceptible today."
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"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
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